I have been hiding in PowerShell and WSMAN land for quite a few weeks now. And each time I set up a new client machine or I scale out the number of VMs in my environment I run against this error:
Exception calling "Enumerate" with "1" argument(s): "The response that the WS-Management service computed exceed the internal limit
for envelope size. "
What am I doing? Well, right now I am calling an enumerate class through WSMAN and listing all of the VMs that I have on a hypervisor.
Why do I get the error? I know why, it is because the return string is so freaking large that the client side of WSMAN (the WinRM listener on my client PC where I am running the query from) says: “hey, my allocated buffer is full and you are trying to feed me ‘just one more wafer thin mint’”
Instead of exploding all over the place I get this nice, friendly warning.
How do I tweak my client to increase the receive envelope size?
Open an elevated command prompt (run as admin) and type:
winrm set winrm/config @{MaxEnvelopeSizekb="1024"}
Note = you do not need to set yours to 1024, I just set it higher than the default.
This was the last setting I had, but I need to go higher as I add more and more VMs. One to 2Mb I go…
